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Cut Airplane Emissions, Not Trade Ties
WWF has said that countries should focus on cutting climate-changing emissions from aviation, rather than retaliating against the European Union for trying to limit emissions from aviation in its airspace. The EU has included aviation in its emissions...Protecting the Climate By Reducing Fluorinated Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which have been used in recent years in increasing quantities as substitutes for CFCs, are also climatically very active and many are also extremely long-lived. In the renowned journal Science an international team of researchers...Does History Repeat? Using the Past to Improve Ecological Forecasting
To better predict the future, Jack Williams is looking to the past. “Environmental change is altering the composition and function of ecological communities,” says the Bryson Professor of Climate, People, and the Environment in the University...
Canadian Government Launches the Canada Fund for African Climate Resilience
As part of Canada’s international efforts to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of a changing climate, the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, and the Honourable Peter Kent, Minister of the Environment, have...Tree Rings May Underestimate Climate Response to Volcanic Eruptions
Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even absent growing seasons, according to climate researchers,...The Good News About Carbon Storage in Tropical Vegetation
A study published in Nature Climate Change finds that tropical vegetation contains 21 percent more carbon than previous studies had suggested. Using a combination of remote sensing and field data, scientists from Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), Boston...Geoengineering And Global Food Supply
Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas have been increasing over the past decades, causing the Earth to get hotter and hotter. There are concerns that a continuation of these trends could have catastrophic effects, including crop...
Acid Rain Study Show Substantial Decreases, But More Progress Is Needed
Measurable improvements in air quality and visibility, human health, and water quality in many acid-sensitive lakes and streams, have been achieved through emissions reductions from electric generating power plants and resulting decreases in acid rain....
